how a photograph can look like a traditional vanitas painting pheasantThe Vanitas series revisits the still life tradition through an underwater photographic process, extending a lineage that emerged most prominently in seventeenth century Dutch painting. Working entirely in water, these compositions draw on historical motifs associated with mortality, transience, and the passage of time. Floral specimens, organic matter, and carefully selected objects are staged within a submerged environment where light, reflection,

the black scars

Ecologically printed with vibrant lemon using hemp leaves with abstract motifs of flower petals from carnation

assembled as sculptural compositions and documented underwater

Ecologically printed with polka dots from beans

each piece is unique

Mainichi Taxi

Photography operates here as a means of inquiry rather than illustration

Water is a life force

which operates simultaneously as symbol and method

it would be a poignant thread for anyone to consider

visual representations of wave mechanics and cosmological phenomena have often relied on interpretive or illustrative methods

The process leaves a minimal carbon footprint